Fall/Spring, 25-26 | Department of Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar Series
CB&P Conference Room – McDonnell Science Building, 4th Floor, Room 423
* All seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm (CST), unless indicated otherwise.
| Date | Speaker’s Name | Affiliation | Seminar Title |
| September 16, 2025 | Chun-Kan Chen, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine | “Regulation of CircRNA Translation Under Hypoxia Stress” |
September 23, 2025* | NO SEMINAR on 9/23 CBP|MCB Retreat September 25- 26, 2025 | ||
| September 30, 2025 | Edward Marti, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine | “Towards super-resolution ultrasound of microvascular disease and regeneration” |
| October 7, 2025 | Sarah Colijn, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine | “Characterizing the role of cilia in vascular development and disease” |
| October 14, 2025 | Yao Chen, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine | “Decoding Biochemical Signaling Dynamics in the Brain” |
October 21, 2025 | Lizzy Draganova, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine | “The Roles of Non-Canonical DNA Structures and Membrane Remodeling in Herpesvirus Infections” |
| October 28, 2025 | Alex Francette, Ph.D. | RISE Faculty Fellow, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine | “Uncovering the evolution and action of eukaryotic transcription elongation factors” |
November 4, 2025 *Moore Auditorium 3PM* | Erlanger-Gasser Lecture Jue Chen, Ph.D. | William E. Ford Professor Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | “How small molecules rescue a folding disease: principles learned from the ion channel CFTR” |
November 11, 2025 | Polina Lishko, Ph.D. | Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine | “From Reproduction to Aging: New Regulatory Mechanisms of Essential Calcium and Potassium Channels” |
| November 18, 2025 | Dennis Goldfarb, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine | “Scalable Algorithms and Machine Learning for Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics” |
| November 25, 2025 | NO SEMINAR – Thanksgiving Week November 25, 2025 | ||
December 2, 2025 | Sunjoo Lee, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine | “Potassium channel regulations” |
December 9, 2025 | Clair Crewe, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine | “Adipocyte extracellular vesicles in cardiometabolic disease” |
December 16, 2025 | David Kast, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine | “Regulation of STING-dependent Cytokine Secretion by Golgi pH” |
| December 23, 2025 | NO SEMINAR– Christmas Week December 23th, 2025 | ||
| December 31, 2025 | NO SEMINAR– New Year Week December 31st, 2025 | ||
| January 7, 2026 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| January 20, 2026 | Ning Tsao, Ph.D. | Instructor, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine | “RNA damage matters: mechanisms that prevent RNA damage-induced genome instability” |
| January 27, 2026 | Silvia Jansen, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine | “TBD” |
| February 3, 2026 | Cristina Santarossa | “TBD” | |
| February 10, 2026 | Ganesh Raut, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine | “Chemotherapy-induced adipo-lineage cell senescence drives bone loss” |
| February 17, 2026 | Xueyan He, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine | Conquering Stress in Cancer: Understanding the “Stressed Gut Feeling” |
| February 24, 2026 | Ava Carter | “TBD” | |
| March 3, 2026 | Erin Barnhart | “TBD” | |
| March 10, 2026 | Jin-Moo Lee, M.D., Ph.D. | Andrew B. and Gretchen P. Jones Professor and Head of the Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine | “Potassium channel regulations” |
| March 17, 2026 | Faranak Fattahi | “TBD” | |
| March 24, 2026 | Mangcheng Shen | Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Washington University School of Medicine | “Harnessing the Power of iPSC-Endothelial Cells for Developmental Biology, Drug Toxicology, and Regenerative Medicine” |
| March 31, 2026 *Moore Auditorium 3PM* | Mecham Lecture Timothy Springer, Ph.D. | “TBD” | |
| April 7, 2026 | Peter Jin | “TBD” | |
| April 14, 2026 | Elena Gracheva | “TBD” | |
| April 21, 2026 | Helen McNeill | Larry J. Shapiro and Carol-Ann Uetake-Shapiro Professor, Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine | “Nemp1 condensates regulation of chromatin and nuclear envelope organization” |
| April 28, 2026 | Aki Ushiki | Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine | “Dissecting Enhancers in Development and Disease” |